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August 1st, 2005
Anti-cancer nanotechnology - a two-pronged attack
Abstract:
Richard Jones: Drug delivery - and in particular the delivery of anti-cancer therapeutics - has emerged as one of the major applications of nanotechnology in medicine. There’s a nice brief review of the subject by Ruth Duncan in this month’s issue of Nano Today: - Nanomedicine gets clinical . An interesting paper in this week’s Nature reports a significant new development from Sasisekharan’s group at MIT, in which two drugs are combined in a single delivery system. This nanovector first selectively targets tumour tissue, then releases a drug which cuts off the blood supply to the tumour, isolating and starving it, and then releases a second drug which directly attacks the tumour cells.
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Soft Machines
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